Department of Physics Colloquium Series - Fall 1999  updated: 10/21/99

Seminars begin at 4:00 PM , Coffee at 3:30 pm

Room 310, Robert H. Flarsheim Hall
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September 3
    Labor Day Weekend

September 10,  Mark Pederson, Naval Research Laboratory, (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Ab-initio Simulation of Molecular Magnets: Magnetic Ordering, anisotropy Barriers and Spin Tunneling

September 17, Isao Tanaka, Kyoto University, Japan, (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Atomic Structure and Chemical Bondings of Intergranular Glassy film in Si3N4-SiO2 Ceramics

September 24,  All Faculty Members in Physics
    Research presentations of each faculty members in Physics

October 1,      Zhe Wu, Chemestry, University of Missouri-Kansas City, (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    New Polymerization Initiators and Methods to Novel Materials

October 8,    Sy-Hwang Liou, University of Nebraska,     (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    Magnetic Domains of Nanometer-size Magnetic Features

October 15, John Urani, Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
    At the Classical-quatum Interface: The Lorentz-Dirac Problem

October 22     Haskell Taub, University of Missouri-Columbia, (host: J.M. Phillips)
    Intramolecular and Lattice Melting in Monolayers of Flexible Rod-shaped Molecules

October 29     Jing Shi, University of Utah,  (host: Da-Ming Zhu)
    Tunneling based MRAM and Micromagnetism in Patterned Magentic Structures

November 5     Peter Fong, Emory University, (K.L. Cheng distinguished lecture series)
    The Beneficial Effects of Low Level Radiation

November 12   Richard Shwartz, University of Missouri-St. Louis, (host: W.-Y. Ching)
    TBA

November 19  Cindy Polsky, Arizona State University, (host: Michael Kruger)
    TBA

November 26
    Thanksgiving Holiday

December 3    Barbra Antony-Twarog, University of Kansas, (host: John Urani)
    TBA